{"id":301718,"date":"2017-04-01T15:11:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tense-stand-off-in-london-as-police-separate-far-right-anti-fascist-protesters-photos\/"},"modified":"2017-04-01T15:11:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T14:11:19","slug":"tense-stand-off-in-london-as-police-separate-far-right-anti-fascist-protesters-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tense-stand-off-in-london-as-police-separate-far-right-anti-fascist-protesters-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Tense stand-off in London as police separate far-right &amp; anti-fascist protesters (PHOTOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2017.04\/thumbnail\/58df9694c3618868688b45a5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 1 Apr, 2017 12:19<\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 1 Apr, 2017 13:56<\/time><\/p>\n<p>        Scuffles have broken out between police and protesters at an anti-Islamic terrorism  rally and anti-fascist counter demonstrations in central London. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>London police were forced to separate the groups that gathered near Trafalgar Square, in a tense stand-off heightened by emotion following the March 22 terrorist attack. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The marches are being held ten days after the Westminster attack that left four people dead and dozens injured after British-born attacker Khalid Masood rammed pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before slamming his vehicle into the gates of the parliament buildings and killing a police officer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/382812-islamophobia-rise-westminster-attack\/\">READ MORE: Islamophobia up after Westminster attack, say police&#8230; but Muslims disagree<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A counter-protest, organized by anti-fascist groups, is also taking place to oppose the demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Both groups are notorious Islamophobes whose concern is not with the victims or their relatives, but only lie in racism<\/em>,\u201d United Against Fascism said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Protesters arrive in central London with their faces covered ahead of a demo by Britain First and the English Defence League. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kpxDriDUj7\">pic.twitter.com\/kpxDriDUj7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Catherine Wylie (@wyliecatherine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wyliecatherine\/status\/848129203849617409\">April 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/383067-anti-islam-protest-london\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 1 Apr, 2017 12:19Edited time: 1 Apr, 2017 13:56 Scuffles have broken out between police and protesters at an anti-Islamic terrorism rally and anti-fascist counter demonstrations in central London. London police were forced to separate the groups that gathered near Trafalgar Square, in a tense stand-off heightened by emotion following the March 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-301718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}